All's Well that Ends Well, 31sq.;
the character of Parolles,
32-33.
Antony and Cleopatra, 36, 84,
123sq.; the character of
Enobarbus, 129-132; the
scene of Antony and Cæsar
dividing the Empire, 132-
136.

Arcadia, The, 16, 23-24, 40.
Arte of Englishe Poesie, 4, 31,
254-255.

Astrophel and Stella Sonnets, 36.
As You Like It, 35-36.

Bacon, Ann, Lady, on her son
Francis, 20, 220-221; her
letter to Essex, 53-54, 287,
288sq.; her last years, 163-
164.

Bacon, Anthony, works with

Francis and Essex against
the Cecils, 42-43; agent for
Essex in his correspondence
with James, 45, 59; his
fidelity to Essex, 59.
Bacon, Francis. The Maydes
Metamorphosis, attributed to
8n; travels in France and pro-
bably Italy, 10, 179; alludes to
his stay at Poictiers, 16; his
early promise, 20; describes
hair as excrement,' 27;
engaged in literary work
(1595), 28; the two
vices of 1594-5, 26;
charge to the jury at the
Court of the Verge, 35;
on the state of London
streets in 1611, 35; his
relations with Essex, 37sq.;
and with the Cecils, 37sq.;
his alliance with Essex
against the Cecils, 42-43;

"De-

his

his efforts to obtain office
under the Crown, 46; fails
to do so and prepares to
desert Essex, 47-48; but
still writes for him, 48-49;
his letter of advice to Essex,
Oct. 1596, 50; his interest in
Irish affairs, 52; passage in
his Apology on Essex in
Ireland, 67sq.; begins to
abandon Essex and court
Cecil, 72; arrested for debt,

72-73; his hand in Essex's
letters to the Queen (1600)
discussed, 79sq.; desertion of
Essex, 85sq.; attitude at
the York House inquiry,
89-90; Bacon and the
authorship of the Cynthia
poem, 97sq.; his part in the
trial of Ralegh, 149sq.; his
habit of anonymous self-
expression,' 157-158; The
Wisdom of the Ancients, 187-
189; aim of Bacon's philo-
sophy, 189, 260 sq.; his theory
of' spirits,' 189-191, 196-198;
Prospero and Bacon, 195;
Bacon's fall, 210-213; his
theories on dramatic poetry,
233-235; his writings on
English history, 236-237;
supposed cypher on Bacon's
name in The Rape of Lucrece,
243; tributes to him as a
poet, 243-244; anon. Latin
play Pedantius attributed to
him, 244; parallels between
Shakespeare and Bacon,
245-247; Wilson's portrait of
Bacon in Kennett's History
quoted, 247-249; his literary
style, 258-259; his aptitude
for picking up technical terms,
271-272.

Blount, Sir C., 62, 63, 64.
Bodley, Sir Thomas, letter to

Bacon at Orleans, 10; his
relations with Essex and the
Cecils, 47.
Burghley, William Cecil, Lord,
his relations with Bacon,
37sq.; dependence of the
Queen on, 46; favours peace
with Spain, 54; his death
(1598), 54; attempts to de-
tach Anthony Bacon from
Essex, 58-59.

Buzzeinge Bee's Complaynt, The,
98-99, 106-107.

Camden, William, on Essex,
76-77.

Cecil, Robert, his relations with
Bacon, 37sq.; secret corres-
pondence with James, 94-95,
140sq.; his share in Essex's
trial and execution, 95-96;

Egerton, Lord Keeper, 72.
Elizabeth, Queen, her relations
with Essex and Ralegh, 39-40,
57-58; her anxiety for Essex
on the French expedition, 41 ;
her unwillingness to make
Essex too powerful, 46-47;
her vacillation loses Calais,
49; her harshness towards
Essex in his last days, 58;
authorship of her letters, 67;
displeased by Essex's truce
with Tyrone, 76; alarmed by
performances of Richard II.,
76; her state of mind after
Essex's death, 119; her death
145.

Elizabethan Age, The, author-
ship in, 253sq,

Essex, Robert, 2nd Earl of, his
relations with Bacon, 37sq.;
his early life, 39-40, 275-276;
joins the Lisbon Expedition,
40; displeases the Queen by
his marriage, 40; leads an
expedition to France, 41-42;
his character outlined, 42; his
popularity with the people,
43; correspondence with
James of Scotland, 44sq.;
his high opinion of Bacon
45-46; authorship of his
letter to the Earl of Rutland
attributed to Bacon, 48;
his expedition to Cadiz, 49;
the Island Voyage, 52, 53;
intrigues with ladies of the
Court, 53, 288sq.; opposes
peace with Spain (1598), 54;
his great quarrel with the

"

Queen, 54-56; harshly treated
by the Queen in his last days
58; attributed to her know-
ledge of his Scotch correspon-
dence, 58-59; takes up the
Irish command, 61; is not
allowed to have Blount as
his marshal, 62; intrigues
against him while in Ireland,
62sq.; his letters to the
Queen, 65; "Declaration
of his treasons, 69-70, 77;
prepares to attack Tyrone,
74; but agrees to a truce,
75; is committed to custody
(1599-1600), 75; his illness
and the popular indignation
against the Court, 78; his
letters to the Queen written
during his disgrace, 79sq.;
the Court of Inquiry at York
House, 89-91; Mountjoy's
efforts on his behalf, 91-92;
the Queen refuses to renew
his wine monopoly, 92-93;
his
Instructions
James's ambassador, 94; his
execution, 94, 95; character
compared with that of
Coriolanus, 136-139; Essex
as Timias in The Faerie
Queene, 274sq.; his reply to
Lady Bacon's letter, 289;
his verses, 309.

"

to

Faerie Queen, The, the character
of Timias vi.; treatment of
the self-element in, 18; epi-
sode of Radigund, 29; the
Nurse and Britomart, 30-31;
Belphoebe - Timias episode,
99-100; the fight of Brito-
mart with Arthegal and
Scudamore, 105; Essex as
Timias, 274sq.; Ralegh as
Scudamore, 310sq.

Fletcher, John, his share in
Henry VIII., 237-238; and
in The Two Noble Kinsmen,
241-242.

Glasse of Government, 8.

Hamlet, 22, 27, 175sq.; parallel

passages in Hamlet and
Bacon's writings, 177-179.
Hermetes the Heremite, 27.

James, King of Scotland, aft.
of England, his correspon-
dence with Essex, 44sq.,
59sq.; the intrigues to secure
his succession, 60-61; secret
correspondence with Cecil,
94-95, 140sq; succeeds to the
English throne, 145; his
treachery to Ralegh over
the Guiana expedition, 150-
151.
Johnson, Dr. on Shakespeare,
1, 4, 164, 252-253.
Jonson, Ben, a contributor to
Chester's 'Love's Martyr,'
112;
on poets, 255;
note in his Discoveries possibly
describing Bacon, 257; his
borrowings from Bacon in his
Discoveries, 266-267.
Julius Caesar, 170sq.

"

the

King Henry IV., the play dis-
cussed, 217sq.; character of
Prince Henry 221-223; and
of Hotspur, 223-225.

King Henry V., passage on
Essex in Ireland, 71; the
play discussed, 217sq.

King Henry VI., the plays
discussed, 230-232.

King Henry VIII., 237-238.
King John, 238.
King Lear. 163sq.

King Richard II., the Queen
alarmed by the performances
of, in regard to Essex, 76,
215; allusions to Essex in the
play, 215-217.

King Richard III., 232-233.

Phoenix and the Turtle, The,
111sq.

Pope, Alexander, emendation of
gum' for gown' in Timon
of Athens, 5.

Ralegh, Sir Walter, his voyage
to Guiana alluded to in The
Merry Wives, 34-35; his
relations with Bacon, 37sq.;
and with Queen Elizabeth,
39; his authorship of the
Cynthia poem doubted, 97sq.,
292; his fall, 140sq.; the
charge against him, 146;
his trial, 147-148; his un-
popularity, 148-149; his
epitaph, 151-152; parallel
between the careers of
Ralegh and Othello, 154-157;
his fidelity to his wife, 287;
his poems, 292sq.; the verse
petition to the Queen, 1618,
307-308; Ralegh as Scuda-
more in The Faerie Queene,
310sq.

Rape of Lucrece, The, 242-243.
Romeo and Juliet, 27; 29sq.;
the Nurse and Spenser's
Glauce. 30; allusion to
Nurse in the Arte of English
Poesie, 31.

Shakespeare, William.

also under

See
names of the
plays and poems; his
authorship
of the plays

doubted, 1sq., 9; legal know-
ledge in the plays, 14, 26-27,
35, 181, 229; the end of the
period of the Comedies, 36;
a contributor to Chester's

Love's Martyr," 112; his
retirement, 214; purpose of
the historical plays, 233; the
doubtful plays, 239sq; paral-
lels between Bacon and Shake-
speare, 245-247; the Shake-
speare-Bacon problem,' 250sq.
Sidney, Mary, aft. Countess of
Pembroke, 15, 23-24.
Simier, French Ambassador,
105, 278.

Sir Thomas More, anon. play,
and Julius Caesar, 172-173;
deprecation of poets in, 255.
Sonnets, The, of Shakespeare, 242.
Southampton, Henry Wriothes-

ly, Earl of, with Essex in
Ireland, 63; recalled by the
Queen, 63-64.
Spenser, Edmund, View of the
State of Ireland, attributed to
Bacon, 50; the writer's sug-
gestions for the better govern-
ment of Ireland, 51-52;
Essex's campaign, 66. See
also Faerie Queen, The.
Synesius's Paradoxe of Bald-
nesse, 27.

on

Taming of the Shrew, The, 28sq.;
the author on women, 29.
Tempest, The, Sir Sidney Lee on,
vi.; the play discussed, 185sq.;
its position in the First Folio,
187; Prospero and Ariel,
191-194; Caliban, 194-195;
the masque, 195; Bacon and
Prospero, 195.

Timon of Athens, 5; 199sq.;

date of the play, 200-201 ;
its sources, 201, 208-210.
Titus Andronicus, 239-241.
Troilus and Cressida, 167sq.
Twelfth Night, 35-36, 183.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 16sq.;
the character of Proteus, 20;
and of Valentine, 22; the
lyric, Who is Sylvia," 24.
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, 241-
242.

Venus and Adonis, 242-243.

Walsingham, Frances, Sidney's
widow, marries Essex, 40;
as Serena in The Faerie
Queene, 286.

Wilson, Arthur, his portrait of
Bacon in Kennett's History,
247-249.

Winter's Tale, The, 181sq.;
parallel passages in this play
and Bacon's writings, 181-
182.